44 - so you wear lycra/cycling shorts for a reason. As for them being white?.....get another colour/pair...jsut a suggestion thats all. I have some Vulkan shorts that i got from www.newitts.com and they are really really good.....tough/and supportive...and a bargain at £8.

I even have a white pair that I wore on sunny days while doing LeJog...making sure i had appropriate undies to prevent the see-through thing that that brilliant video highlighted!!!

I wear 3/4 ones although they are probably more 2/3 (just over the knee). I think they are great, don't have the zips that full length ones have. Will wear full lengths when the weather gets colder. I'd never wear baggy / loose fitting shorts again.

Men should wear shorts or tights and nothing in between. Capri's are definitely for the girls. IMO you don't wear anything underneath your lycra and nothing over it. Underwear creates unnecessary chafing spots. And why would you create layers over the lycra? As long as you are running, you wear the appropriate outfit and don't have to feel ashamed about anything. As long as we run we're the ambassadors of a healthy life style, so we're not the ones to feel ambarrased about anything! The moment you stop running and will go buying a bread, everything changes however, please wear something additional, otherwise everybody will be staring downwards...

Well built men and women both look excellent in tight fitting lycra, it enhances the sportive looks. So: DO run in your lycra and enjoy your run!

3/4 lengths on men just shouldn't be worn, total no no, shorts or tights, leave the 3/4 to the females who have the shape to get away with it. Unless you're specifically wanting to look like the only gay runner in the village, don't do it!.

Can't understand this 'Gay' comment. Do gay men who run actively go out and purchase 3/4 length shorts?

Is there also a stigma about gay men running?

I wear 3/4 lengths , purely due to the benefits they give. If you're unsure of your own masculinity, or you really are that much of a tit that you worry that much how you look when you run .. maybe you should find another sport.

If you want to look more feminine that's fine go ahead and wear the 3/4 length jobbies. Don't understand what specific 'benefits' you can get from wearing them mind you.

I do think you're deluding yourself if you say you're not at all worried about what you look like when you run, otherwise you'd just put on a brown sack and head out the door. All of us have a certain level of vanity no matter what the occasion, otherwise you wouldn't choose to wear 3/4 length trousers, you obviously think they look good on you otherwise you wouldn't wear them..... Obviously we don't all agree on that one but that's life.

If you see the same bloke wearing a pair of regular running shorts and then see him wearing a pair of 3/4 length capri pants, he will look different and in my opinion more feminine in the 3/4 thingies.

I couldn't really give two hoots if anyone wants to wear them, like I said if you're okay with the look then go for it.

If you ask if I'm okay with all the rest of the current 'trends' for blokes to wear their jeans around their ankles and have silly coiffured hairstyles, then I think I'll stick with the 'Victorian' attitudes.

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